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  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  as far as people who would play in the tournament, I knew just about ... , and there were 12 people who would play in the main bracket. I think the ... . I made the username in 2014, so I would have been…12?  [We proceeded

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and ... give in though, I improvised, and conceived a personal scale on the spot

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  A Complicated Synthesis Question starting materials include hard decisions and uncertain paths

  

  again, I would spend hours locked away in a corner of the library staring ... For most of the semester, I've lived and breathed in the ever ... in the process of dropping a class (Jeremy thinks I should call it "The

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 7, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  judging eyes trying to count just how many times so far. I imagine at this ... hallucinogens out of the US, or that I have a small plant in my pocket that needs ... passing security, but I'm afraid I might burst in the process. (Talk about

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  math majors learn how to talk and write (in LaTeX) about their work. I recently realized that I am almost done with my major requirements (as in, I ... As some of you may know, I am majoring in math and economics

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  area to see which would take them. So I heard this and even though I was ... fleas (though I certainly haven't heard a word of thanks) sleeping in my ... me so I don't know how to make my browser go back to how it was before

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... was the last day to turn in your finished product, so I spent the entire ... Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The waking of all creatures that live on the land Lingering at MIT with my wandering eye. UPDATED, BABY.

  

  had hoped that taking the 6 boxes I stored in the Burton-Conner trunk ... , isn't it? Considering that I only weigh 140 pounds, I wondered just how ... ! It was a nice surprise. Now, time to forget it all in two years like I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  question of how to continue making art in the real world, once I graduate. I ... -month internship in Seattle,[/annotation] a group of intern friends and I decided ... in Cantonese, a language I cannot understand. It was something about

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  and said, "Go Forth and Measure." I never thought my secret ninja skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... ... NON NONSENSICAL RESULTS - CA CHING Score. So that's how I spent my

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  this online- I think you’re just awesome in general. To those few in the ... past 6. In the first portion, I spent some time creating my personal ... than the one near my home. In the two years I was there, I dedicated

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  the SATs today. I remember how much it sucked to sit in a room for ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  point out how all of it is the same. Finally (I'm really not going to go ... is not a rule - there are always exceptions, but in general, I think ... Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  fish "Ian Brelinsky" in honor of Ian '06. I guess I have led a very ... very long. I joked that I would release Ian Brelinsky into the Charles ... (LBGT) groups. (There could be more sponsors that I'm forgetting.) Gabe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  Engineers]. I loved throwing tea parties in my fraternity, where we would all ... came for, and in a good way; I never expected the community I would be a ... with Teachers creators. If you would like to be involved in the process

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  . No matter how many hours I end up spending in the lab, or how many ... makes MIT...well, MIT. In this entry, I wanted to not only tell you a ... destroyed in a game of Stratego. (I should take this opportunity to note that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  , done that" …and I would probably do it again, but only if in a ... mango juice in a turd mug. I ordered a House of Poo Poo variation of ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  every way possible, every night I lie in bed, the brightest colors fill my ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  HT@MIT: Department Lectures and Final Presentations MIT's Best Kept Secret

  

  (and around) MIT so I thought I would bring it back with something I ... practical and even longer from being taught in classes. I see it as a glimpse ... blowing how far people branch off after GIRs. I swear the course 2's are

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • December 28, 2014